Kervin & Barnes is an established boutique practice based in Mayfair providing first-class employment law advice to senior executives and companies in a range of sectors. The firm provides City-trained/experienced lawyers who develop close trusted relationships with clients.

The firm: Kervin & Barnes was founded by Gareth Kervin in 2009. From that time it has enjoyed sustained growth and developed a strong reputation for its advisory and litigation work. The Firm is regularly instructed on major restructuring/redundancy exercises and high value litigation on issues such as bonuses, restrictive covenants and whistleblowing.

Its client base has expanded steadily, working with clients such as Nottingham Forest Football Cub, Danone, West Ham United Football Club, YouGov Plc, P&O, Groupon and a number of financial services companies. The Firm is also regularly instructed by high net worth individuals.

Kervin & Barnes' lawyers have practised in the City and in-house at financial services institutions. They are highly regarded, known for punching above their weight and being practically and commercially minded.

Types of work undertaken: The Firm covers the full range of employment-related work, including general advisory, Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation, regulatory compliance and discrimination. Recent instructions include implementing a large-scale reorganisation and redundancy process, litigating restrictive covenants for businesses and employees, negotiating significant settlement packages, advising on protected disclosures and advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions. The Firm also provides training to HR teams.

Financial services: Kervin & Barnes offers expert employment law advice to financial services employees and employers in Mayfair and the City. Its employment lawyers have considerable experience working in this complex and demanding field of law, and regularly advise on both the employment and regulatory issues particular to the sector.

Recruitment: the recruitment industry is another sector in which Kervin & Barnes offers sector specific advice. Its lawyers have extensive experience working with all sizes of recruiters, and regularly advise on recruitment industry issues such as the Agency Workers Regulations, Conduct Regulations and IR35 led issues.

Retail: the firm also provides employment law advice for the retail sector, from small boutiques to large international enterprises. Retailers frequently face legal challenges from their employees, and the team has successfully defended and resolved claims on behalf of its retail clients.

The document entitled "Statement of Changes to Immigration Rules" which was released by the House of Commons on the 7th March 2019, outlined and advised us on a number of changes that will come into place that will affect the Tier 1 Investor Visa amongst other visa programmes and schemes. The latest article on our website discusses both of these new UK business visa routes. Our immigration lawyers London are already up to date on all of the required information for both the NEW Tier 1 Start-Up Visa and the NEW Tier 1 Innovator Visa .

According to the new document from the House of Commons on March 7th 2019 titled â€śStatement of Changes to Immigration Rulesâ€ť, a number of changes will come into place that affecting the Tier 1 UK Investor Visa programme amongst other visa programmes and schemes. Read about them in our latestÂ article .Â

There is no doubt that the UK has to date benefited immensely from visa-free EUÂ immigration to the extent that visa conditions and caps on non-EU migrant have undermined and overshadowed the ability of this group to play a prominent role in British industry and commerce and in its expanding and overburdened NHS service. It is the view ofÂ Gulbenkian Andonian Â however, that afterÂ Brexit, there should be a noticeable change in those skilled non-EU migrants contributing to British society in a meaningful way.Â

From 1 January 2021 everyone except for British and Irish citizens will be subject to immigration control in the UK. Â Gulbenkian Andonian solicitors has already published an article on this topic of post- Brexit immigration and has discussed the case of EU nationals and family members after Brexit, you can find that article here as one of many in our blog .

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